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| 18.03.2026 | Ingredion leverages AI to advance ingredient discovery | Listen to the article 3 min
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Ingredion is partnering with two AI-driven food tech firms to accelerate the discovery of new ingredients that support consumer d... |
| 14.08.2025 | Is Precision Fermentation the Next Big Bet for Future Protein Investors? | Once just a humble food-preserving method behind kimchi, miso, and tempeh, fermentation is now at the centre of one of the most promising developments in alternative proteins: precision fermentation. This cutting-edge twist on an ancient pr... |
| 23.06.2025 | Shiru invites brands to harness its AI platform to explore ‘natural’ GLP-1 activation: ‘The opportunity is immense’ | Shiru, a startup deploying AI to aid in ingredient discovery, is inviting food companies to use its platform to explore ingredients that naturally stimulate production of GLP-1, a gut hormone associated with appetite regulation.
The new GLP... |
| 28.04.2025 | Shiru Launches AI-Driven Plant-Based Ingredients for the Future of Clean Label Foods | Shiru, an AI-driven ingredient discovery company, has commenced the commercial production of two new plant-based ingredients, uPro™ and OleoPro™, following successful development and customer feedback. These ingredients, both designed to ad... |
| 20.03.2025 | 🎥Shiru CEO: AI-powered protein discovery started in biopharma, but food is next… | In biopharma, protein discovery has been completely disrupted by the use of artificial intelligence in recent years, whereas the food industry has been slower to adopt such tools, says Shiru founder and CEO Dr. Jasmin Hume. “But I think tha... |
| 14.03.2025 | Shiru Partners With GreenLab to Scale Novel Food Proteins Made Using Corn-Based Expression System | AI-powered ingredient discovery company Shiru has partnered with plant biotechnology pioneer GreenLab to commercialize novel food proteins made using GreenLab’s proprietary corn expression system.
The collaboration will give Shiru access to... |
| 16.01.2025 | Shiru Launches Global Search for Beverage Partner to Discover and Scale Natural Sugar Replacement with AI-Powered Ingredient Discovery | Shiru, the leader in AI-powered ingredient discovery, today announced the launch of a global Request for Partners (RFP) aimed at finding a mission-aligned beverage partner to jointly discover and scale a natural sugar replacement. The partn... |
| 16.01.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Colossal Biosciences raises $200m, Chipotle invests in methane reduction | This week, Colossal Biosciences, the company trying to bring back the woolly mammoth, raised a whopping $200 million while NatureMetrics, a British startup in nature intelligence and biodiversity monitoring, closed a Series B round.
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| 03.12.2024 | Sweet Innovations: The Future of Sugar and Egg Alternatives | In a world increasingly concerned with health and sustainability, innovation is the lifeblood of the food industry. Two recent projects from Germany showcase this trend, aiming to revolutionize how we sweeten our drinks and create airy text... |
| 03.12.2024 | NovelSweets Project Develops Protein-Based Sweetener 10,000 Times Sweeter Than Table Sugar | Researchers at Fraunhofer IME have partnered with metaX Institut für Diätetik GmbH and candidum GmbH to develop a new type of protein-based sweetener. Called NovelSweets, the project is supporting the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agr... |
| 29.11.2024 | Cradle Secures $73M to Revolutionize Planetary Health with AI-Driven Protein Engineering | AI biotech company Cradle has raised $73 million in a Series B funding round led by IVP and backed by Index Ventures and Kindred Capital, bringing its total funding to over $100 million.
Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Zurich, Swit... |
| 21.11.2024 | Shiru’s CEO discusses ‘revolutionary possibilities’ of its protein AI platform | Listen to the article 4 min
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Founded in 2019, Shiru uses artificial intelligence to discover new proteins for use in food and beverage products. Shiru’s flagship platform... |
| 19.11.2024 | Shiru: Ingredient Discovery Company Raises $16 Million | Shiru – a pioneer in AI-based ingredient discovery – announced it has secured a $16 million investment round as it leads a revolution in how ingredients are discovered and developed across multiple industries.
Shiru’s flagship platform Prot... |
| 14.11.2024 | Shiru Raises $16M to Expand AI Protein Discovery Platform Across Industries | 4 Mins Read Artificial intelligence startup Shiru has closed a $16M Series B round to broaden its ingredient portfolio and expand its protein discovery marketplace.
Months after launching an AI-powered protein discovery platform for compani... |
| 14.11.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Grubhub sold in $650m deal, Elicit Plant bags $47m, gene-edited wine | After years of looking for a buyer, food delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway.com has finally sold Grubhub, which it acquired for $7.3 billion in 2020, to New York-based delivery restaurant group Wonder.
Over on the funding side of things, Elic... |
| 13.11.2024 | Shiru Expands AI-Powered Ingredient Discovery with $16M Boost to Revolutionize Products, Categories, and Industries | AI-enabled protein discovery company Shiru has raised $16 million in a Series B funding round led by S2G Ventures, with participation from CPT Capital, Lux Capital, Nourish Ventures, and Meach Cove Capital. The round brings Shiru’s total fu... |
| 12.11.2024 | Shiru Raises $16M in Funding | Shiru, a Berkeley, CA-based AI-powered ingredient discovery company, $16M in funding.
The round was led by S2G Ventures, with participation from CPT Capital, Lux Capital, Nourish Ventures, and Meach Cove Capital.
The company intends to use ... |
| 12.11.2024 | Shiru Scores $16M Series B Financing |
BERKELEY, CA, Shiru, the pioneer in AI-powered ingredient discovery, has secured a $16 million investment round.
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| 12.11.2024 | Shiru raises $16m series B to expand AI-powered ingredient discovery platform | Shiru, a startup deploying artificial intelligence to aid in protein discovery, has closed a $16 million series B round led by S2G Ventures.
The round, which was also backed by CPT Capital, Lux Capital, Nourish Ventures, and Meach Cove Capi... |
| 07.08.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Bar Vegan, Mr. Charlie’s & EU Alt-Protein Investments | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Mr. Charlie’s new vegan cheeseburger, Califia Farms’ acquisit... |
| 01.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: osapiens nabs $120m for ESG tech, Impossible clears EU hurdle, layoffs at Deere | In what’s been an otherwise fairly quiet week, Germany’s osapiens, which makes ESG compliance tech, scored a Series B round. Smaller fundraises this week include restaurant tech company Batbox, insect protein startup Entocycle, and Millow, ... |
| 31.07.2024 | Shiru and Ajinomoto team up on AI-powered sweet protein discovery journey | Protein discovery startup Shiru has teamed up with Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition Partners, part of ingredients giant Ajinomoto, to develop and commercialize sweet proteins: high intensity natural sweeteners that can replace sugar in beve... |
| 31.07.2024 | Shiru and Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition Partner to Develop Sweet Proteins That Can Replace Sugar | AI-enabled protein discovery company Shiru has announced a partnership with Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America to develop and commercialize sweet proteins that can replace sugar and sweeteners in beverages and specialty products... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Creamy Future: Nourish Ingredients and Fonterra’s Fermentation Revolution**
** | ** In a world where food innovation meets sustainability, a new partnership is stirring the pot. Australian startup Nourish Ingredients is teaming up with New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to create a new wave of dairy and non-dairy products... |
| 23.07.2024 | Designer lipids startup Nourish Ingredients collaborates with dairy giant Fonterra on fats from fermentation | Australian startup Nourish Ingredients has announced a collaboration with dairy giant Fonterra to accelerate the development of dairy products with fats produced via fermentation.
Nourish, which is developing a range of high-impact, low-inc... |
| 06.05.2024 | Aleph Farms Taps Into AI for More Efficient Cultivated Beef Production | 6 Mins Read Israeli cultivated meat leader Aleph Farms has partnered with biotech startup BioRaptor to integrate AI into its production process, which will enable scalability and reduce costs.
Ahead of launching into restaurants in its home... |
| 01.05.2024 | Shiru Launches ProteinDiscovery.ai, the “World’s First” Protein Marketplace Touted as the Amazon of Proteins | California-based Shiru, an AI-enabled startup developing performance ingredients, announces the launch of what it claims to be the world’s first protein marketplace and discovery platform, ProteinDiscovery.ai.
Shiru‘s new platform catalogs ... |
| 01.05.2024 | Shiru harnesses AI to launch protein discovery platform: ‘It’s like Amazon for proteins…’ | California-based startup Shiru is launching a first-of-its-kind discovery platform and marketplace for proteins, enabling companies in multiple industries to harness its AI and machine learning capabilities to identify and test proteins fro... |
| 01.05.2024 | Shiru is launching the world’s first marketplace and discovery platform for proteins | - |
| 01.05.2024 | Shiru Unveils AI-Led Protein Marketplace and Discovery Marketplace | 4 Mins Read Artificial intelligence startup Shiru has today launched the “world’s first” protein discovery platform, allowing companies to find and buy sustainable proteins for product development.
As the world of protein expands, with inno... |
| 11.03.2024 | TIME’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024 Recognizes The Better Meat Co., Rebellyous Foods, Prime Roots & More | TIME Magazine together with Statista, a leading statistics portal, recently unveiled America’s Top GreenTech Companies in 2024, recognizing 250 firms leading the charge in sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Among these, FoodTech ... |
| 26.02.2024 | How a new recipe can help food win in an Ozempic world | The following op-ed is written by Scott Bowman, a managing director at Clareo and the co-founder of the NOURISH Movement and Wiles Kase, a senior consultant at Clareo.
The stunning rise of anti-obesity (GLP-1 agonist) medications has caught... |
| 19.04.2023 | 4 тренда на рынке DeepFoodTech: как стартапы делают открытия и производят новые продукты | 1. Применение искусственного интеллекта в производстве альтернативных источников белка
Искусственный интеллект (ИИ) и машинное обучение (ML) все чаще становятся важными ресурсами для ускорения исследований и разработок альтернативных продук... |
| 16.03.2023 | Shiru launches plant-based fat as its first ingredient | Dive Brief:
Artificial intelligence-powered food tech company Shiru launched OleoPro, its first ingredient. OleoPro is a plant-based fat that combines plant proteins and unsaturated oil.
OleoPro can hold its shape at room temperature, brown... |
| 16.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Andes lands $30m to tackle carbon, THIS cooks up $18m, Leaf & AWS team up | This week, climate tech startup Andes bagged funding for its carbon removal technology, plant-based meat maker THIS announced Series B funding and Immi raised funds for plant-based ramen. In the world of ag data, two infrastructure provider... |
| 14.03.2023 | Shiru Launches Oleopro, A Protein-based Alternative Fat Ingredient To Unlock The Next Generation Of Plant-based Foods | Shiru’s first commercial product, OleoPro, delivers a 90% saturated fat reduction and improved taste performance compared to current fat solutions for plant-based meats
Shiru, an AI-powered discovery and development company for novel ingred... |
| 13.03.2023 | BREAKING: Shiru unveils plant-based fat for next gen meat alternatives: ‘It looks and behaves like animal fat’ | California-based startup Shiru has identified plant-based proteins that can be combined with healthy oils to create structured fats that can replace saturated animal or tropical fats such as palm or coconut oil in multiple applications.
Sol... |
| 16.11.2022 | Shiru presents a better AI approach for protein function prediction at NeurIPS | Shiru presents a new AI approach for better protein function prediction
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A novel combination of machine learning approaches results in a new state-of-the-art in predicting where proteins go and what they do.
This new approach enha... |
| 09.11.2022 | Shiru Appoints Jason Voogt as Chief Product Officer | Shiru appoints Jason Voogt as Chief Product Officer
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The ingredient veteran will bring continued commercial focus and Shiru’s first products to market.
Jason’s promotion to Chief Product Officer is an important moment for Shiru, s... |
| 01.09.2022 | Puratos partners with Shiru on egg replacements for bakery | Dive Brief:
Bakery ingredients maker Puratos is partnering with food tech company Shiru to evaluate and scale alternatives to egg proteins for baked goods. Shiru, which uses its Flourish discovery platform to find plant-based proteins that ... |
| 27.07.2022 | Shiru Appoints Dr. Ranjani Varadan, Ex of Impossible Foods, as Chief Scientific Officer | Shiru Inc. of California today announces the onboarding of Dr Ranjani Varadan as its first Chief Scientific Officer. Dr Vardan was the first scientist hired by Patrick Brown at Impossible Foods where she served from 2011-2021 in roles inclu... |
| 24.06.2022 | Ex Tyson Foods CEO Joins Former Impossible Foods’ Rachel Konrad at California’s Shiru | Shiru, a biotech startup that creates novel plant-based ingredients for the global food industry, appoints three new advisors including former president and CEO of Tyson Foods Dean Banks. Banks joins a list of industry veterans at the compa... |
| 25.11.2021 | How Shiru will use its $17M funding round to transform ingredients through science | - |
| 17.11.2021 | Biotech startup Shiru Expands Board of Directors and Names Former Impossible Foods VP of R&D as its First Scientific Advisor | Biotech startup Shiru Expands Board of Directors and Names Former Impossible Foods VP of R&D as its First Scientific Advisor “Mary, Rachel, and Ranjani are global industry leaders, each with different and complementary spheres of expert... |
| 01.11.2021 | Californian Biotech Startup Shiru Makes Waves in Alt Protein, Securing $17M in Series A | Californian biotech startup Shiru has closed a $17 million Series A funding round to develop novel plant-based food ingredients using machine-learning algorithms and precision biofermentation. Shiru’s technology allows food companies to inc... |
| 27.10.2021 | Shiru raises $17 million to develop novel plant-based ingredients | EMERYVILLE, CALIF. — Plant-based ingredient startup Shiru raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by S2G Ventures, with participation from returning investors Lux Capital, CPT Capital, Y Combinator and Emles Venture Partners. New... |
| 27.10.2021 | Daily funding roundup - October 27, 2021 | Truepill raised $142M; Cornami landed $50M; Extend secured $40M; Shiru picks up a $17M
Clickup: Clickup is a San Diego, Ca.-based workplace productivity platform. Clickup has raised $400 million in Series C funding co-led by Andreessen Horo... |
| 27.10.2021 | Coinbase looks across the pond for inspiration | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Coinbase may be the most well-known crypto exchange in the U.S., but there are many companies in ... |
| 27.10.2021 | Biotech startup Shiru sprouting plant-based ingredients with new capital infusion | Protein biochemist Dr. Jasmin Hume was working in the alternative food space when she saw an opportunity to evolve technology so that our global food industry can reduce its reliance on animals.
She started Shiru in 2019, and the company us... |
| 27.10.2021 | Coinbase looks across the pond for inspiration | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Coinbase may be the most well-known crypto exchange in the U.S., but there are many companies in ... |
| 27.10.2021 | Shiru Raises $17M in Series A Funding | Shiru, an Emeryville, Calif.-based biotech startup that identifies and creates novel plant-based ingredients for the global food industry, raised $17m in Series A funding.
The round, which brought total funding to date to more than $20m, wa... |
| 27.10.2021 | Shiru Closes $17M Series A to Develop Novel Plant-Based Food Ingredients | EMERYVILLE, Calif., Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Shiru, a biotech startup that identifies and creates novel plant-based ingredients for the global food industry, has closed a $17 million Series A round led by S2G Ventures and joined by ret... |
| 27.10.2021 | Shiru gets $17m in Series A funding to scale up its novel ingredients business | US biotech startup Shiru has closed a $17 million Series A round to help it grow its business of identifying and developing novel ingredients for food items, starting with alternative proteins.
S2G Ventures led the round. Returning investor... |
| 27.10.2021 | Shiru raises $17m to launch bio-fermentation platform producing label-friendly alternatives to everything from methylcellulose to gelatin | Shiru’s proteins are designed to be used in a wide variety of products that currently utilise animal-derived proteins such as egg or dairy proteins, but can also be used to replace plant-based ingredients that don’t have consumer-friendly n... |
| 27.10.2021 | Shiru Closes $17M Series A |
EMERYVILLE, CA, Shiru, a biotech startup, has closed a $17 million Series A round led by S2G Ventures.
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Shiru, a bio... |
| 23.08.2021 | Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir is helping judge Startup Battlefield at this year’s Disrupt | Deena Shakir is a partner at Lux Capital, where she looks to invest in technologies that are streamlining analog industries while also improving lives and livelihoods. Among the companies she has backed, for example, are Shiru, which is lev... |
| 24.02.2021 | Meet 18 Startups Transforming Food, From Fungi Protein To Cultured Breast Milk | 12 Mins Read
As our food system continues to battle challenges brought on by climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, innovation in the food tech startup world has been racing to come up with disruptive solutions. The upcoming Future Fo... |
| 14.12.2020 | Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir sees space and frontier tech going mainstream right now | Deena Shakir joined Lux Capital as a partner last year after spending seven years with Google, the last of them with GV, Google’s venture unit.
While Shakir seems to fit right in with the firm — known for its wealth of PhDs and moonshot inv... |
| 07.11.2019 | AFN has coffee with… Jasmin Hume, founder of alternative protein startup Shiru | Jasmin Hume is a food scientist. Or, she is now. The protein engineer is developing vegan alternatives to eggs, milk and other ingredients through a company she founded called Shiru. But until a few years ago, it hadn’t occurred to her that... |
| 27.10.2019 | Shiru Raises $3.5m in Seed Funding | Shiru, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of proteins for food applications leveraging molecular design, raised $3.5m in seed funding.
The round was led by Lux Capital with participation from Y Combinator, S2G, CPT Capital, PeakState, SGH C... |
| 24.10.2019 | Daily funding roundup - October 24th, 2019 | Demodesk has raised $2.3M; Foundries.io landed $3.5M; Tines secured $4.1M
Demodesk: Demodesk is building an intelligent online meeting tool for inside sales and customer service teams. Demodesk has raised $2.3 million in seed funding round ... |
| 16.08.2019 | Protein replacement startups are coming for food additives as Shiru launches from Y Combinator | Shiru, a new company that’s launching from the latest batch of Y Combinator-backed startups, is joining the ranks of the businesses angling for a spot at the vanguard of the new food technology revolution.
The company was founded by Jasmin ... |
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